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I

How much of the city has turned over?

Pick two years; the charts below shade the window

Nobody tracks individual New Yorkers across decades, so every turnover figure here is an estimate built from official totals. The yearly ledger of births, deaths and moves in section II is enough to estimate roughly how much of the city changed hands between any two years: take the people here at the start, apply each year's exit rate (deaths plus out-moves) to them, and count what remains against everyone born or arrived since. The further back a window reaches and the longer it runs, the rougher the estimate.

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II

The ledger, year by year

One timeline, 1970 to 2025. Hover any bar for the number.
III

The decade ledger

The same arithmetic, census to census

Sources and notes

Every series, linked to its file